Aldrin - Organochlorine. Pesticide Residue Testing

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Trade or other names
Use of product
Used to control
Other Info
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Below is a review of the trade names, risks, likely use and other information associated with Aldrin.

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Aldrin

Of the class organochlorine, it is an insecticide

Chemical name: 1,2,3,4,10,10-Hexachloro- 1,4,4a,5,8,8a-hexahydro- 1,4:5,8-dimethanonaphthalene

Trade or generic names

(Now banned)

Crops / products generally treated with this product

No longer used. Buildings (Anti termite) rice, corn, wheat

Used to control

termites, grasshoppers, corn rootworm.

Now banned in USA, Till 1987 Only used in the USA to control Termites with long residual activity.

Prior to 1974 used on corn and cotton

Known risks associated with high exposure

Highly toxic and dificult to metabolize.

Can kill birds and fish, implicated in seabird death.

Fatal dose for adult is estimated as 5 grams

Other information

Still widely found in marine environment, sediments it is a persistent organic pollutant.

Soil tainted with Aldrin is a constant problem where it has previously been extensively used to control termites.

and (c) organochlorine poisoning. The main chemical which caused poisoning was HEOD, derived from the insecticides aldrin and dieldrin. Other deaths were attributed to poisoning by DDE (the main metabolite of the insecticide DDT) and by HE (heptachlor epoxide, derived from the insecticide heptachlor). .... Springerlink

Links

Extoxnet: Extension Toxicology Network

The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2004

USA only: Project Safe Send

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Penalty urged for soil mistakes
Parents learned about pesticide-laden soil at West Brook Middle School in May, four months after school district officials first discovered ALDRIN, dieldrin and chlordane on school grounds.
Source: njersey, Date and Time of entry: 15 October 2007 10:51

Back from the brink - the remarkable otter recovery
A key reason is the decreasing presence in the countryside of organochlorines, such as the insecticides dieldrin and ALDRIN.
Source: n.echo, Date and Time of entry: 01 August 2007 15:08

Paramus residents fear soil stigma
Since ALDRIN, dieldrin and chlordane -- the pesticides found at West Brook -- were commonly used before the federal government banned them in the late 1980s, Evangel believes schools throughout the nation are contaminated.
Source: njersey, Date and Time of entry: 01 August 2007 15:07